Handmade

Technique of creating an object by hand, or hand tools.

This category contains terms that are related to the making of objects by hand or by using hand toos.  This is a non-mechanical process.  

 

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
1740 (none) 1924,0920.136 (none) Miniature bowl. Hand-made. Flat-bottomed.
307 (none) 1923,1110.50 (none) Marble relief. Fr showing feathers or hair, possibly one side of a coiffure: certainly intended for inlay: hole in the back for fixing something (a face?) in the center.
7600 (none) (none) B17195 Lion. Limestone. White. Fragment. Broken away behind back of head represented as couched, head resting on forelegs tips of which are missing. Flattened base. Cavity running length-ways down the middle of the body to receive post. Existing portion broken and mended.
304 (none) (none) (none) Limestone relief. Fragment of, In bad condition. Subject: a man kneeling rt and castrating a bull (?): the bull much damaged: to l. part of a fowl (?) on a large scale. Probably Chaldaean period.
11400 (none) (none) B17198 Limestone relief. Fragment of inlay from a frieze. The upper part of a male figure with arms raised holding a pole as if punting a boat.
8557 (none) (none) B17086 Limestone plaque. Fragment of, with sculptured scene in relief. The plaque is 027 wide and was probably a square: there are holes at the bottom corners and there was a whole in the centre, its edge coming 013 from the base line. Only the lower part of the panel was found and the upper fractures run aslant downwards from the central hole so that the upper corners of the lower scene are missing. There were 3 registers: the top most is wholly missing: of the two side scenes flanking the central hole there remain only, on each side, the feet of a human figure: the lower scene is largely intact and in very good condition. Scene: an empty chariot drawn by 4 lions and escorted by 3 men. One man in front guides the lions: figure preserved from the waist downwards. The lions are preserved all except their heads: the bodies and legs are shown in outline one behind the other: they advance right and the drawing shows a good idea of strain. The chariot is 2-wheeled, only one wheel shown, a solid wood and wheel made of 3 pieces -riveted- clamped together, with rim tyre and decorated axle-head. The yoke is high and curved, and has, rising above it, a ring for the reins, which pass across to the back of the chariot, and are held by a walking attendant. Under the spring of the yoke are tied 2 spears. Over the chariot is spread a spotted object, probably a leopard's skin, most of it inside the car whose sides are left visible -- in front of the car rises a high peak to which -are- is attached what may be a quiver full of arrows. The attendant behind the car holds the reins and carries a spear or goad: he wears a beard and long hair or wig, and a kaunakes skirt: the face is bird-like. The man behind him is similarly dressed: head and shoulders missing: both hands are raised in front to grasp of pole which seems to rest on his shoulder and support an object hanging behind his back, perhaps a jar or water-skin(?) Remarkable piece of archaic relief. Broken and mended. Thickness 0025
17869 32-40-316 (none) (none) Jeweller's trial piece (?). Fragment of a four-sided rod of white limestone: on one side a roughly cut intaglio; a small figure of a man copulating with a woman, the latter figure large and grotesque.
1514 (none) 1924,0920.137 (none) Jar-stopper(?) red drab clay; egg-cup shape, unsymmetrical. [drawing 1:1]
303 (none) 1923,1110.145 (none) Ivory carving: A bowl, with knob handles, the rim decorated with zigzags on top and double half-circles on the side, D. 85mm, supported by 2 nude female figures: these have each an arm round the other and with the free hands support the bowl on their heads. Broken into many frgs and restored. Parts of the 2 free arms are missing, otherwise virtually complete.
8472 (none) (none) B17197 Head of priest. Shaven? and shorn Limestone White. Face entirely lost - ears and back of head alone remain Hole pierced through bottom of neck to admit a pole.
6782 (none) (none) B16228 Head of Ningal? Alabaster. White. Eyes inlaid in lapis lazuli. E. [illegible, possibly resinous] cast in BM 118564.
8292 (none) (none) B17196 Head of male. Unbaked clay. Not made in a mould. Traces of black paint under the eyes. Hole pierced through bottom of head vertically to hold a pole.
16427 31-43-173 (none) (none) Head of a ram. Dark steatite. Cult object for fixing on a pole. The neck and head made in 2 pieces; the eyes originally inlaid (inlay missing); perfect except for chips out of one horn and the ears. The neck and the head are covered with a fleece conventially rendered in small locks, the face smooth, the horns crinkled. Very good work. [drawing 1:1]
16927F 31-43-178 (none) (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
12778C.2 (none) 1928,1010.784 (none) Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design].
8758 (none) (none) B17204 Grotesque figure. Baked clay. Hand modeled. Left arm missing. Male? figure, flattened head, pellet eyes, coarse nose, rounded chin; holds vertically against breast an object which looks like a thick stick with a hooked top. Lower part of body hollowed out inside; intended to receive a holder? [drawing 1:2]
11906 (none) 1929,1017.47 (none) Frontlet. An ellipse of gold plate engraved with an 8-pointed star of the conventional type: at each end a wire for attachment, one ending in a loop, the other in a wooden button.
94 (none) 1923,1110.47 (none) Frgs of alabaster vase. Decorated with winged ram in high relief. [drawing]
3350 31-16-940 (none) (none) Fragment of mould for figurine. Limestone: showing flounced skirt of draped figure.
127 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. Very well chipped. [drawing 1:1]
1785 (none) (none) B15649 Figurine. Red clay. Male. Head and trunk only. Cracks in head and beard. [drawing 1:1]
1609 31-16-875 (none) (none) Figurine. Drab clay; modeled. Female(?) figure with cross-belt (or bandoliers) - legs not indicated: head missing.
8325 (none) (none) B16802 Figurine of bull in lapis lazuli wearing a false beard. [drawing] 1:1 Style of the 1st Dynasty of Ur.
8015 (none) 1928,1009.346 (none) Copper pin. Plain, with small ball head. [type] V.
9919 (none) 1928,1010.356 (none) Copper Pin Bent shaft, lapis ball head Type VI

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